Several EFF councillors stormed the South End Fire Station’s joint operations centre (JOC) on Tuesday, leading to the collapse of another Nelson Mandela Bay council meeting.
Only one manganese ore operator is working legally in the Markman industrial area, with four recently shut down after 19 operators inspected across Nelson Mandela Bay were issued with non-compliance notices.
A new multiparty coalition in Nelson Mandela Bay that managed to boot out the ANC-led coalition of Executive Mayor Eugene Johnson last week has set out its priorities to ‘get the city working again’, giving a damning analysis of a broken metro.
The new coalition government in Nelson Mandela Bay is expected to make changes to the male-dominated 14-member mayoral committee, which sparked a huge backlash for only consisting of one woman.